Pregnant!?! (The Last Of Us Fanfic)

Keep on Running

Ellie POV

"Joel! We can't just leave him!" I scream at him as we run from the community, towards the forest. We're only a bit away from out spot of escape. I can't tell the difference between tears and rain anymore. Joel only looks back for a second and I can tell from his face that he isn't sure Rick will make it.

We continue to run, the infected have stopped following us. People are everywhere, screaming, running, crying...dying. We run past Finn's cabin, which is now empty and will probably be empty for a very long time.

A wave of heat hits my right side as we weave through the trees. I look and see that the fire has spread, it's starting to engulf us. I look behind me and see the flames covering our old path.

"Ellie! We're almost there! Don't look back, just keep going!" Joel shouts at me as we run through the rain. The drops are hitting my face so hard that they feel like little pebbles.

We finally get to the tree that we used to climb over last time, but it has fallen onto the fence, which is now scattered in pieces.

"Well, if Rick didn't open the gate to let the infected in, this would've," I say to Joel.

"Probably, now let's go," He says, motioning for me to follow him past the fence.

"What about Rick?" Shouldn't we wait for just a couple minutes?" I ask, pushing out every word trying to be louder than the wind and rain. The fire crackles just feet away from us.

"Ellie-"

Suddenly, Rick pushes through the trees and he's covered in blood. He's out of breath but he's still running.

"There you are! I grabbed somethings for you guys!" He says, running over to us. The rain has made him so wet that if he were sweating, you wouldn't be able to see it anyways. He throws Joel his old backpack!

"My bag!" Joel exclaims, putting it on his back.

"Yep! I went through the lab before coming to you guys, I had to get more guns and ammo through the vault, then I remembered that Clara still held your bags in decontamination-"

"But she said that they were destroyed to get all the 'germs' off of them?" I say to Rick who throws me a hunting rifle, which I sling over my shoulder.

"Well, yes. Ellie, yours was actually in the furnace. This is all I was able to get off of it," He says, handing me my purple keychain that dangled off my bag. I nod, turning to Joel. He nods to me and I clip it onto his bag. "I'm sorry that I couldn't get anything else," Rick says, giving another gun to Joel.

"Thank you, Rick. Most of my important items were already at our home back in Jackson so I didn't really lose much," I tell him. I can now feel the fire on my right cheek. "There wasn't a switchblade around there?" I ask.

"No, but you can have mine," He says, handing me his own switchblade. "My mother gave it to me before she died, so I guess I need to pass it on somehow,"

I nod to Rick, then we hear the clickers in the distance, growing louder by the moment.

"Let's go," Rick says to Joel who is already finding a path through the downed fence.

We're able to squeeze through fence and as we go around the tree, I put my hand on it's wet bark. "Thank you," I whisper to it.

We're weaving through the trees, the fire behind us which is growing darker as we get farther and farther away. We won't be able to see very well soon once we have no light, so that means we'll have to walk, instead of run. We may even have to stop.